Motivated by recent events, I'm pleased to announce that I have completed and filed my dissertation, "The Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Values, Technical Design, and the Flow of Personal Information in Spheres of Mobility." All that awaits is…
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Google’s Persistent & Sticky Memory
Blogging has been light lately as I'm busy (a) finalizing details for the Identity & Identification in a Networked World symposium at NYU, (b) working out the logistics for my upcoming research trip to Europe (which now also includes a…
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a Science & Society Dissertation Improvement Grant from the Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation. This grant will support my dissertation research of the value…
In Defense of My Chosen Profession
There seems to be a never-ending stream of cries about liberal bias in academia. Thus far, I've kept myself out of this debate about my chosen profession. Today, however, I'd like to point to two reasoned responses to recent claims…
Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design
Alejandro Diaz, a grad student at Stanford University in Communications (with a BA in Computer Science), has written an excellent (and nearly 200-page) honors thesis entitled "Through the Google Goggles: The Sociopolitics of Search Engine Design" [pdf]. Here is the…
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